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• Post #2174555

  @daringfireball @lisamelton “A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.” Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying #tech #google #palantir #iran #iranwar #politics https://...

• Post #2174554

  @daringfireball FANTASTIC essay on mindless deployment of AI in the workplace/industry. The AI Great Leap Forward https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/ #AI https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116372424442927220

• Post #2174553

  RE: https://aus.social/@jeffcgd/116376529519378059 So deeply ironic that the very first repost is by a pro-AI bot, despite the actual article being deeply critical of unthinking AI automation.

• Post #2174552

  @siracusa Is there any special niche case where it would be worth picking up a second hand 2019 Mac Pro, if you could get one for a good price? Can it still dual boot with Windows for gaming?

• Post #2174549

  Work has been not-so-subtly hassling me to use AI tools in my day-to-day. Relented and asked for advice on tackling a technical printing process problem. Copilot confidently proposed a workflow that turned out to be demonstrably false, once followed. It finally suggested a workable solution, but there is little value (and no time savings) to me in suggestions where I have to verify the validly of each and every one.

• Post #2174548

  @trelord in this case I had exhausted my specialist knowledge in this area, and I did ultimately lead me to a comprised solution. But its initial solution was a falsehood, draped in robotic blind confidence, thanks to its inherent lack of any sort of actual comprehension.

• Post #2174547

  @viticci this true? https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS9ahpGs2/

• Post #2174544

  Fuck that asshole Bezos. “Jeff Bezos to sell Māori-named $852 million megayacht as it’s too recognisable” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/05/04/bezos-us-yacht/